New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-15
nRoWDS AT PHILADELPHIA
PREPARATIONS FOR THE CENTENNIAL
oovERNoRs AND GENERALS WITH THEIR srAFFs
STILL CONTINUE TO ARRIVE
faY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 14.-JhS 10 certainly On
accommodating town. Tho basier 1t get., 'ne m''e .
urbane be oones its disposition. tremendous GRO
has poured into the city all day, and mas '"so Ao
cavacity of all hotels and places OF pnble acc0mno-
son to their utmost limit and yet nobody mas ioS'
bis patience Nest Of the hotels have had 'he'' space
engaged ior week, bat none oil tnem mas TAseu
price,. This admirable feeling oil COCO humoe " "eh
ias,rated be one OF the tes lust sent to per-
.an-of M N ,rteuar distinction a. tar as know-by
the hotel proprietor where an staying 1t reads;
Am very sorry to be unable TO give you a room,
but our capacity 10 fully exhausted. Shall Try 70
set Won quarters else where ~
Now IL thot 10 not amiability personi6ed what
could he and the best OF 1t Is mat the telegram was
sent prepaid.
Unless the weather interieres the industrial process
sion tomorrow will be wonderful affair. The pro-
gramme contains the promise that every knd OF
human occupation will be more or less fully repre-
scented. The city 10 ell ready tor It, Along Broad-st.
the bunting covers almost every inch OF brick front
Flags wave a thousand poles. Banners ana
transparencies hang from countless house-tops
Lumber and chairs are to be had In Philadelphia
for love or money, and several carloads OF both
came up from WILMINGTON and Chester this morning
They employed in tho erection OF grand STANDS
and seats upon them The people who cannot pay
81 80 for seats on these stands will not have much
chance to the show tor pretty nearly every BODY
whose property fronts along the line OF march, mas
built stand aud opened reserved seat ticket opee
in bis front door over his store counters Inc
Phiadelphians are patriotic people, ana they nave
eye to business.
SOME STANDS THAT LOOK ALARMINGLY WEAK.
II there rs q building bareau in correction with tho
government here, afraid IL has neglected to look
after these stands. counted 1O6 along the route To-
day and most of them will bold from ZOO TO Z,OVO
people. II the weight should prove too heavy for
their supports, fearful calamity might ensue, and
some OF the stands look alarmingly weak
The President and Mrs. Cleveland will not arrive
until Thursday evening. They will be attended oy
arI Nr. Raya md eC.
rotary and Mrs. Endicott General Sheridan Is
already here with his stat, and Governor Beaver,
who hss been having good time with Editor
Singerly on the Editors new stoam yacht, has now
gone OF to Gettysburg to meet Governor FORAKER,
and together they will arrive tonight. Governor
Hill was expected but he is so busy fixing up his
fences ut the county fairs that he now fears he can
get here at all. Again the loving hearts OF Grover
and David, which had beat high in hope Oh meeting,
are mortified and disappointed. Admiral Luce mas
arrived IRON Ne port and lots of smaller Governors
and generals and colonels coming In on every
train.
There is not much said in philadelphia about the
President but everybody on the qul viye to zee
Mira Cleveland. Ono solitary portrait OF the
10 visible along ali the route OF the parade
and that hangs the street, where the Grand
Army would have to psss under It, but is discreety
posted up against the house occupied by q Young
Mems Democratic Club Portraits OF the Presidents
WIFE, sbough, are to be seen everywhere, and are
selling sks hot cakes In the streets.
OFFICIAL HoNoRs TO THE PRESIDENT.
Officially MIR. Cleveland will receive much atten-
.ion Immediately upon his arrival on Thursday
evening be will be escorted TO Archbishop Ryans
residence where he lends his presence at reception
20 His Eminence. Cardinal Gibbons. On Friday
morning the Commercial Exchange tenders him re-
ception and afterws ard he will review the military
parade In the evening grand uii-dress reception
will be rendered HIM and his wife in the Academy OF
Music The Union League Club will then waive its
notifies and give him q reception in lite CLUB house
On Saturday morning he will be open to the public so
10 speak and will shake his fellow -citi1ens by the
hand until time for the memorial exercises in lndepen-
dence Square, IN which be takes suits BILE part In
the AFTERNOON the Bbernisn Society will entertain
him. and after a dinner in the Academy OF Music he
will be suffered 10 depart.
Philadelphia aid not fully awaken to this celebra
ton until about month ago but If 1t had existed
only tor the purpose Of glorifyng the fathers who
signed the Constitution, it would scarcely have ar
ranged for the event more eaoorately Many vi the
arches and dor al dis PLAYS really magnificent, and
as a whole the city is much brilliantly deco
rated than II 1t was upon the Centennial Fourth OF
July Medals of Washington, Franklin and other
Revolutionary heroes are being sold plentitully on
the street corners and little pamphlets describing tue
Constitutional Convention its members and its
work, flooding the town.
BOSTON, SEPT. IA Especial. The Massachusetts
delegation to the Philadelphia celebration LETT Boston
this afternoon and made magnificent appearance
The dele CATION comprised the let Regiment and the
Independent Cadets. The Let Regiment, as 1t pa
raded an Washing ton ST. escorting the Cove tnor on
tho way to the railway station, received with en-
thusastic cheers.
THE GREAT CONVENTION AND ITS WORK
LESSONS OF EXPERIESCE-THE DELEGATES, THEIR
DIVERSE WISHES AND THE FINAL COMPROMISE
There is no study in American history more fa-c:-
mating than that of the origin and birth oil the Constr
tuition. The men who made it we're so typical OF the
times and in the presentation OF their views so clearly
sketched the sit uaon their various States, that
their proceedings, spite OF the crude and meagre
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ure Of the country civil condition to be found In con-
tempvraneous annals Every really eminent
constitutional authority available to the people was
sent to the nvention. Jefferson abroad at the
tme, and whatever may haze been lost by reason OF
his devoted patriotism and signal ability, 1t Is prob
ably most fortunate that he was away. The ultra
Democrats came dangerously near causing several
abrupt dssouons of the convention, as 1t was. Tue
preseuce of nina im Dued with democratic priaci-
pies, 80 incorporating and forcetul. might have
caused the Withdrawal, several times threatene OF
that conservative body OF statesmen whose support
was absolutely essential to the final ratification OF the
conventions work and who were held in check almost
wholly by the personal influence OF Washington.
Even he sometimes grew despondent When the
assembly had discussed and labore1 amid much bad
feeling and personal controversy tor more than five
weeks, LIE sadly wrote to Hamilton | am sorry Jcu
went away 1 wish you were back The men who
oppose strong and energetic government are, in my
opinion uxrrow minded politicians, are under the
influence of local views. la word almost despair
of seeing favorable issue to the proceedings OF the
convention and do therefore repent having had any
agency IN the business"
This feeling happily dspelled in time. Concili-
alton and compromise and the genuine spirit OF
patriotism that peryaded the assembly brought about
\ more harmonious sentiment The trouble then was
the same trouble which made itself felt at intervals
IRON the days of the Confederation down to the days
Of Lincoln and Grant, and which was finally burned at
Gettysburg and Appomattox. The forces arrayed
Aganst each other In the old State House In indie
pendence Square The same forces that clincbed
almost century later Ia mortal confctthe forces OF
Nationaiism and States Rights.